Question

A patient is receiving 500 ml of 10% intralipid on saturdays along with his normal daily pn therapy of 1,580 ml of d20w, 520 ml freamine 15% and 30 ml of electrolytes. what is the daily amount of calories provided by the lipids?

Answer 1

For a patient is receiving:

500 ml of 10% intralipid

with his normal daily pn therapy of 1,580 ml of d20w

520 ml freamine 15%

30 ml of electrolytes

the daily amount of calories provided by the lipids is 78.6